SEATTLE — Longtime major league coaches Mel Stottlemyre and Lee Elia will not return to the remodeling Seattle Mariners in 2009, leaving an almost entirely new staff for first-time manager Don Wakamatsu.

The 67-year-old Stottlemyre spent one season as pitching coach with his hometown team. A five-time All-Star during his big league career, he was a World Series winner as pitching coach with the New York Yankees and Mets. But he had little tangible effect on Seattle’s injured and mostly ineffective staff this season while the Mariners lost 101 games.

Stottlemyre’s one-year contract expired on Oct. 31. He, along with Elia, has been told he will not be asked back.

Elia, the 71-year-old former manager of the Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies, was hired before this season as a special adviser to manager John McLaren, fired by the Mariners in June. Elia was with the team periodically all season.

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RED SOX: Boston expressed an interest in bringing back captain Jason Varitek but have not made an offer, the catcher’s agent said.

“We’ve had no financial discussions with the team as of yet regarding Jason,” agent Scott Boras said. “We met briefly when the club expressed interest in bringing Jason back. And we told them we were interested in looking into it. It was something we agreed to discuss in the future. So I’m sure sometime after Thanksgiving we’ll sit down and talk about it.”

Varitek filed for free agency after 11 years with the Red Sox in which he grew particularly valuable for his defense and handling of the pitching staff. His offensive numbers dropped this season, when he batted .220 with 13 homers and 43 RBIs in the final season of a four-year, $40 million contract he signed in 2004 after the Red Sox won their first World Series title in 86 years.

MARLINS: Florida’s new ballpark won’t open until the 2012 season, a one-year delay because a recent court challenge slowed the start of construction. Last Friday, a Miami-Dade circuit judge eliminated the final legal obstacle — a lawsuit filed by auto dealer Norman Braman against several projects, including the 37,000-seat, retractable-roof stadium. The Marlins, however, have yet to break ground at the site.

METS: Two New York City Council members say that Citigroup should show its thanks for a federal bailout by sharing the naming rights to the new Mets ballpark in Queens. The struggling bank is slated to pay $400 million over the next 20 years to name the stadium Citi Field. Now that Citigroup is getting billions of dollars in federal aid, Staten Island Republicans Vincent Ignizio and James Oddo say the ballpark’s name should be changed to Citi/Taxpayer Field.

PHILLIES: Second baseman Chase Utley has had arthroscopic hip surgery and is expected to need four to six months to recover. The three-time All Star had surgery to trim the labrum and a bony lesion in his right hip. Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said last week that he expected Utley to be ready at or shortly after the start of the 2009 regular season.

STEROIDS: Roger Clemens’ former trainer gave samples of his DNA to federal investigators trying to ascertain whether the star pitcher committed perjury before Congress, two New York newspapers reported.

The request for a DNA sample from trainer Brian McNamee suggests that investigators found readable DNA on the syringes, needles and gauze pads McNamee turned over to federal prosecutors in January, The New York Times and Daily News reported Monday night.

McNamee’s lawyers have said the items, when tested, would link Clemens to the use of performance-enhancing drugs. They claim McNamee used those needles and a gauze pad while injecting Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone.

Investigators must determine whose DNA is on that material if it is going to be important to the probe. It’s not clear whether federal authorities have a sample of DNA from Clemens.

“We’ve always said we’d cooperate, but we’re not going to comment on any aspects of the federal investigation,” Clemens’ lawyer, Rusty Hardin, said Tuesday.